The scientific revolution: accomplishments and opportunities

Before the real scientific revolution took place, mankind has already made significant discoveries, which have begun the great progress. People by this time already used firearms and gunpowder to clarify the relationship, crossed on the ships of the sea and the oceans in search of new lands. One of the most important inventions - typography - made it possible to preserve the information available, preventing people from repeating and trampling in one place. Knowledge grew, the relationship between countries and society increased. And all this invariably contributed to the accomplishment of such magic for human civilization as the first scientific revolution.

History knows how much the present resists everything new, directed toward the future. Therefore, to say that in the Middle Ages, science has gone by leaps and bounds, it is not necessary. All technical achievements had only practical, applied character, and more advanced ideas and people who expressed them, were subjected to terrible persecutions. The most terrible thing that cosmopolitans of that time did not perceive was the doubt about the truth of the existing postulates that the scientific revolution of the 17th century caused. Take, for example, the point of view of the Universe, the center of which was the Earth. The teachings of the Fall, the existence of heaven and hell were a vital necessity for the church leaders of the time who ruled the medieval world with the help of fear and persecution. And the alternative view of Nicholas Copernicus that all existing planets, including the Earth, revolve around the Sun, already in the middle of the 16th century brought society into a state of shock. The scientists of that time were also not brave enough to expose their lives to the fire of the Inquisition. And that's why, probably, the scientific treatise of Nicholas Copernicus was published already after the death of its author.

And yet, no matter what they say or do, it was the teaching of the great astronomer that was the first step towards the fact that the first scientific revolution was accomplished. The picture of the world, which until now has been recognized as unshakable and unquestioning, collapsed in front of an astonished society. The follower of Copernicus astronomer Braga perfected and once again confirmed with his discoveries the correctness of the arrangement of the large celestial bodies entering the solar galaxy system, their distance from each other. So there was the first catalog of stars.

Further, the scientific revolution of the 17th century was continued by the magnificent works of Galileo Galilei. At his disposal was already a telescope made in the Netherlands, which he successfully reconstructed and perfected and was able to see sunspots and craters on the moon, discovered the satellites of Jupiter and described the phases of Venus. And the Church was really frightened now and had sounded the alarm. The famous scientist, on pain of death, was sentenced to life-long house arrest and was forced to recognize all his discoveries as erroneous.

However, the scientific revolution was already in full control of the wheel of history. The books of Galileo and the works of Copernicus were translated into European languages and spread in neighboring countries with Rome. The result of this was Kepler's discovery of the elliptical forms of the orbits of the planets. Later Rudolf's tables were compiled, which made possible mathematically accurate calculations of the motion of celestial bodies.

And then the scientific revolution was gaining momentum and surprised the world with the laws of Newton, medical and anatomical studies of the human body, leading to the thought that blood is spread by contracting the ventricles of the heart. And by the end of the 17th century a mathematical language had been formed, and a logarithmic system of signs was discovered. And, we can say that the first scientific revolution was completed with the creation of the Pascal summing machine, and then improved by Leibniz and capable of producing the multiplication effect.